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Democrats-Liberals-Progressives, the leftist blogworld, and their MSM are positively aghast at the impertinence of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie in not exposing his four kids to unnecessary danger, for his audacity in believing a Catholic religious education was important to their upbringing and development, and for advising a Jerseyite that his choice of that parochial-school environment was irrelevant to his role as governor.

Of course, bringing harm to the young Christies or questioning the governor’s right not to send his kids to Jersey public schools was not the intent of the Thursday video caller on PBS’s “On the Line” anymore than it is the intent of Dems-Libs-Progs.

“Gail” asked Christie, “You don’t send your children to public schools. You send them to private schools, so I was wondering why you think it’s fair to be cutting funding to public schools?” The apples and wartermelon query essentially sought to pin down Christie on his rights as a parent to seek the best education for his children versus his mandate as chief executive of New Jersey to restore fiscal sanity to the virtually bankrupt Garden State.

What Christie should have said in response to “Gail” was, “Are you a nitwit? What does one have to do with the other?” Instead, he politely said, among other things, ”It’s none of your business. I don’t ask you where you send your kids to school.” The other things included citing the $38,000 a year he and his wife pay in property taxes in Mendham to support public schools there while not burdening those schools with four more kids.

See a clip of the PBS exchange captured by NJ.com here: http://bit.ly/izWbtC

Reactions to Christie ranged from CBSNewYork.com which reported that Teaneck [NJ] “voters watched, listened and were appalled at the language coming out of the governor’s mouth,” far less appalling than that emanating from much of the blogosphere. Among many Christie accolades, others did seem very appalled.